From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 09:39:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2911B16A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:39:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3DB43D1F for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:39:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kjelderg@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z35so70147rne for ; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 01:39:45 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=G0HUMmVet7S9KSljB9glAEXvu9c0KEYJd04xmO+6ElR2ASTwQ80fD1ogif5croURLn+giyq/IGRI/72uKs4k29e7SPYHIKzR+tcvRb86ousu8drry7FJUULF9Hi46fCIfMxLY3mz/yXGHKfqBygTmBJ87jKVmEVgSRDHGZ8FZ7Y= Received: by 10.38.97.47 with SMTP id u47mr178458rnb; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 01:39:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.101.3 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 01:39:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 03:39:45 -0600 From: Eric Kjeldergaard To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <20041227083502.2d865466.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041227083502.2d865466.wmoran@potentialtech.com> cc: ctodd@chrismiller.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write state to swap for multi-os boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Eric Kjeldergaard List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 09:39:46 -0000 > > Has anyone considered or accomplished allowing FreeBSD to write it's > > current state (including window manager, windows, etc) to swap and > > allowing a subsequent reload of the system to last state? This would be > > sort of like the sleep mode of a laptop, but would allow the user to boot > > into another OS (like Winblows) briefly and then resume their FreeBSD > > system state. I'd love to use FreeBSD as my primary desktop, but there may > > be times where I'll need to boot into Windows for apps that don't run > > under Wine. Since I tend to have a lot of application windows open, it's a > > PITA to have to reload everything on boot. Thoughts? > > This isn't a direct answer to your question, but you might want to have > a look at vmware. > vmware and qemu (open source semi-alternative) are good ways to accomplish booting Windows from inside of FreeBSD. What you want, however, is something that has been on the wishlist for a little while now. Suspend-to-RAM has been around and works fine for a while, but Suspend-to-disc (which Linux currently has) is yet to be written. There have been suggestions of saving the RAM to swap space and shutting down. I hope to see someone put this into action soon. It'd be a great feature. (Especially for mobiles) -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.